Portland Timbers v Aston Villa Combined Match Threads

[ciggiesnbeer]

Well not too bad. Some lovely passing at times but too often it lead to nothing. Still it's only a friendly and it's early days. Looks promising for the long term.

I do wonder about the crowd's patience for this new passing style. It will take done adjusting to and there will be games where we go nowhere as we adjust. I can imagine the "get it fucking forward!" complaints already

Hopefully the Villa faithful will get behind it. By the way if you saw some passes go astray tonight the timbers brought a fire hose (literally) to drench the pitch before the game and at half time. They swamped it to cut down our passing game. Which is a nice compliment in a way.


Was a fun game I have to say, Timbers have some good loud fans.

[supertom]

That wasn't our strongest side and I get the feeling that Lambert probably has 1-2 attacking players in mind to improve the squad and increase options. He seems to favour two up top and if that's the case we need one more front man. I don't think Fonz is good enough and I'm unconvinced on Weimann too.

I think our style of play will be a joy to watch compared to last season. Still it's early days. We may have to switch more direct at times against decent opposition.

[darren woolley]

I'm glad we have had a good pre season in the states looking forward to the season starting now.

[DeKuip]

I've seen nothing but positives in the four games so far (apart from the two injuries of course). Really enjoyed watching last night's game, not just the style of play but the desire to go and win the game after Portland equalised – not the sort of thing you expect in a friendly usually. It made for a very entertaining end-to-end last 15 minutes or so.

[VILLA MOLE]

Well not too bad. Some lovely passing at times but too often it lead to nothing. Still it's only a friendly and it's early days. Looks promising for the long term.

I do wonder about the crowd's patience for this new passing style. It will take done adjusting to and there will be games where we go nowhere as we adjust. I can imagine the "get it fucking forward!" complaints already

if it is anything like our patience for transfers errrr?

[ADVILLAFAN]

I think thanks needs to go to our commentary team of Edvard and PWS, for bothering to stay up at that time.

[SoccerHQ]

Be honest!

Did anyone think that we would win a PK Shootout?

Not me, I must admit; every pen, was a perfect one, excellent.

We've won our last couple haven't we? The Peace cup win, Sunderland in the carling cup the year we reached the final and Bolton in the FA cup semi, can't think of many else.

[ADVILLAFAN]

We do tend to win penalty shootouts, lost to Wedt Ham in the League Cup, but ended up going through as they fielded an ineligible player

[PeterWithesShin]

Off the top of my head Wimbledon in the FA Cup is the only one I can remember us losing. Unless you count Forest in that Mercantile or Centenary thing at Wembley.

[gervilla]

http://www.portlandtimbers.com/news/2012/07/match-replay-watch-full-archived-match-timbers-vs-aston-villa-jeld-wen-field

As the link says, here is the full match.

[Irish villain]

http://www.portlandtimbers.com/news/2012/07/match-replay-watch-full-archived-match-timbers-vs-aston-villa-jeld-wen-field

As the link says, here is the full match.

Watched a bit of that this morning. Bannan's passing was incredibly good.